My client, a leading financial institution, requires a Head of Test and Quality. You will hold accountability for the delivery of all testing and quality services on a newly built enterprise payments platform, which include: manual, automation and performance testing and QA. This will also require you to bring Agile ways of working to the project, and having a track record of previous Agile implementations

Deep technical understanding of testing, quality assurance and release management gained through experience of leading a test and quality team on a large programme.

Confirmed skills in aligning IT with organisational drivers.

Extensive Experience in resource and workload management.

Experience in budget control.

Industry awareness to identify improvement opportunities and implement them across the services and processes incorporated within the domain.

Good working knowledge of the financial industry

Desirable Criteria

Degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent experience.

Validated ability to develop a detailed understanding of the business function relating to the system under change and the stakeholders' risk appetite, in order to articulate the appropriate design for test environments and data driven from test objectives and the test strategy.